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Ladies did you know that we have very few symptoms with a heart attack?

We just buried my best friend day before yesterday. She had two major heart attacks in a week, one at home and the other one in the hospital. She had very few signs of a heart attack. When I took her to the ER they thought at first she had pneumonia, but tests proved she had a major heart attack. There was no hurting in the chest or numbness in the arms. She talked to us the entire time about what she was going to do when she got home. That night the kidney doctor came in and said her kidneys had completely shut down and she would have to be on dialysis the rest of her life. She was 69 years old. He told us she was critical and had to be moved to another hospital that had a great heart unit. I thought that someone this terribly sick should be hurting somewhere because she had such a low resistance to pain. When they did the heart cath she had two arteries stopped up 99% and one 60%. They didn't even think she could make it through open heart surgery. Anyway she had another major heart attack before they could even put in the little device in her chest for the dialysis. She was on life support after that and died three days later. It is still amazing to me how someone could be so sick and not have any signs. So ladies please take care of yourself and if you have the least bit of discomfort that is not like yourself please see a doctor.

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  • 10 years ago
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    Yes I had heard that women's symptoms are different than men's and may not be recognized for a heart attack, I did think more pain was involved. Thank you so much for sharing. I am sorry for the loss of your friend. If she was bound to die from a heart attack, I am glad she had no pain.

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